Show me language models from smaller labs

27 language models from smaller labs. 15 have weights you can download. Input prices run from $0.04 to $5 per 1M tokens. The largest context window is 1M tokens (LongCat-2.5). Newest check: 11 Nov 2026.

94 of 197 models were checked against the vendor's own page in the last 30 days.

ModelLabContextIn / out per 1MReads and writesStatusChecked
ERNIE-5.5-Flash-PreviewBaidu's text-only preview mixture-of-experts model, served through Qianfan on OpenRouter with a 1M-token context window and tool calling.Baidu1M$0.28 / $1.13text → textPreview11 Nov
Nex-N2.6Nex AGI's hosted agentic model for computer use and coding, with image input, tool calling and about 321B parameters, served first-party on OpenRouter.Nex AGI262K$0.12 / $0.40text, image → textAvailable11 Nov
Inkling 2 SmallSecond-generation model from Thinking Machines Lab with image input, adjustable reasoning effort and a 1M-token context, released 5 November 2026.Thinking Machines Lab1M$0.30 / $1text, image → textAvailable9 Nov
Ripple-65B PreviewRicursive Intelligence's 65B dense open-weight preview for agentic coding, with a 1M-token context window.Ricursive Intelligence1M$0.10 / $0.30text → text, codePreview11 Nov
LongCat-2.5LongCat-2.5 is Meituan's natively multimodal model: 1.6T total parameters, a 1M-token context, image and video input, and API access since November 2, 2026.Meituan1M$0.30 / $1.20text, image, video → textAvailable3 Nov
Particle-1Particle AI's first model: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash post-trained for coding and data engineering, with a 1M-token context window.Particle AI1M$0.25 / $1text, image → textAvailable30 Oct
Mercury 3Mercury 3 is Inception's flagship diffusion LLM, released in October 2026, with a 1M-token window, four reasoning levels and text-only input via API.Inception1M$0.10 / $0.35text → textAvailable22 Oct
BeamReflection AI's open-weight sparse MoE for coding and agents, with a 1M-token context window and 128K output, under a permissive Apache licence.Reflection AI1M$1 / $3text → textAvailable19 Oct
KolibriKolibri is Aleph Alpha's Apache 2.0 English-German mixture-of-experts model: 78.1B parameters, 3.46B active, released 3 October 2026.Aleph Alpha1M--text → textAvailable5 Oct
Cloudflare ClefCloudflare Clef (27B) and Clef-flash (9B): open-weight decision models from 2026 that return probability-scored answers from text, image and video input.Cloudflare66K$0.24 / $0text, image, video → textAvailable16 Oct
Index-Translate-35B-A3B-previewOpen MoE translation model from Bilibili with 35B total and 3B active parameters, image translation and downloadable weights, released in 2026.Bilibili262K--text, image → textPreview2 Nov
Ling 3.1 FlashInclusionAI's text-only reasoning model for coding agents and long tasks, released on 30 September 2026 as the successor to InclusionAI's July flash model.InclusionAI262K$0.30 / $0.90text → textPreview8 Oct
Intern-DecisionShanghai AI Lab's open-weights multimodal decision models (0.8B, 2B, 4B) return typed choices with probabilities in one pass, released Sept 2026.Shanghai AI Lab----text, image → textPreview18 Oct
Aion 3.5Aion 3.5 is Aion Labs' roleplay and storytelling model, built on the GLM family, with mandatory reasoning and a long context window.Aion Labs262K$3 / $6text → textAvailable3 Oct
JevTypeSafe's first System One Model, launched in 2026: skips text generation for typed, calibrated decisions software can act on directly.TypeSafe AI64K$0.042 / $0text, image → textAvailable11 Nov
Atria Dawn PreviewAtria Dawn Preview is Shanghai AI Lab's 744-billion-parameter agentic model, released as an open, MIT-licensed weight download in September 2026.Shanghai AI Lab256K--text → textPreview9 Oct
Ling 3.0 Flash FinA 124B-parameter open MoE model from InclusionAI, continued-trained on financial data for source-grounded investment research and spreadsheet work.InclusionAI262KFreetext → textAvailable9 Sep
Solar Pro 4Upstage's agent-first flagship LLM, released 2026, built for coding agents and long-document review rather than single-shot chat or multimodal tasks.Upstage524K$0.30 / $1.20text → textAvailable13 Oct
K-EXAONE 2.0Open-weight mixture-of-experts model from LG AI Research, released in July 2026, with ten supported languages and a hybrid attention design.LG AI Research262K--text → textAvailable12 Oct
Pulsar 16BPulsar 16B compresses NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B to 16.15B parameters, scoring 87.22 on AIME 2025 and 71.41 on GPQA Diamond. Apache 2.0, free to self-host.Multiverse Computing1M--text → textAvailable30 Aug
FuguSakana Fugu routes each request across a pool of models behind one OpenAI-compatible API, in four models. Fugu Max costs $2/$6 per 1M tokens and Fugu Ultra $5/$30.Sakana AI--$5 / $30text → textAvailable9 Nov
ALIA-40b-instruct-2601BSC's open instruct model for Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician, post-trained with supervised and preference data and released as Apache-licensed weights.Barcelona Supercomputing Center164K--text → textBeta12 Oct
Kanana-2 30B-A3B InstructOpen-weight mixture-of-experts chat model from Kakao, released January 2026, with 3B active parameters and six supported languages.Kakao33K--text → textAvailable13 Oct
HyperCLOVA XNaver's HyperCLOVA X family runs from free SEED weights on Hugging Face to managed CLOVA Studio models, led by an open reasoning model that reads text, images and video.Naver128K--text, image, video → textAvailable31 Oct
Olmo 3.1 32B ThinkDense 32.2B reasoning model from Ai2 that ships open weights alongside its training data and code, with a 65,536-token window.Ai266K--text → textAvailable3 Oct
Osmosis-Structure-0.6BOpen-weight 0.6B model built on Qwen3 that extracts schema-valid structured output from reasoning traces, with 996 monthly Hugging Face downloads.Osmosis----text → textAvailable15 Sep
Mercury 2.5Mercury 2.5 is Inception's diffusion LLM, released 8 September 2026, with four reasoning levels, parallel tool calls and text-only input via API.Inception260K$0.20 / $0.75text → textDeprecated3 Oct

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